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Serenity prayer applies. You seem focused on what people think regardless of their options for action. I really only care about opinions in the context of high agency. Much simpler problem.
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That’s partly my point. Populism as a force is kinda spent. It shot its once-in-a-generation shot, a generation of politicians learned how to wield it. People realized its dangers and now power is back in fewer hands. A few old actors have exited, a few new actors have entered.
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That’s what it means to ride populism. You think you own the force until it bites you in the ass and shows you it owns you.
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I was talking to somebody about yellow jackets, I forget who... they remarked that populist movements are good at stopping things from happening (like a tax) but can never coordinate enough to make things happen via positive action. This is a lesson leaders have mostly learned.
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If you have agency, positive action to produce fait accomplis while containing popular influence and accepting you’ll be hated by half the population no matter what you do, is the key to acquiring and keeping more agency. Agency is like money. It must flow to exist at all.
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It’s circulating in new ways post Great-Weirding. But the populist chapter is done. The right is now too insane, and the left too angry, to be be effective. Both are acting in self-undermining ways now.
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